Sheridan, Anthony. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. Guardian Unlimited.
Nazis
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary Setting | Margery Lawrence | |
Textual Production | Cecily Mackworth | Cecily Mackworth
made her name with her book I Came Out of France, a vivid first-person account of the fall of France to the Nazis
and its immediate effects on the civilian population. |
Textual Production | Cecily Mackworth | |
Residence | Cecily Mackworth | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Cecily Mackworth | CM
was in Berlin when fire was set to the Reichstag
or parliament on 27 February 1933. This caused political panic and gains for the young Adolf Hitler
. It was understood that the Nazis |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Cecily Mackworth | Czechoslovakia Fights Back, printed on flimsy wartime economy paper, is a moving document. Its opening sentence runs: Czechoslovakia was the first non-German country to experience a Nazi occupation and has thus had longer than... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ethel Mannin | In Berlin she mourns the end of Weimar Germany's promise of sexual freedom. She laments the passing of individuality and freedom, the assertion of a tyranny that has even the power to interfere in the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Edna St Vincent Millay | This volume is composed mostly of personal love poems (some of them dating back to 1932), in a different strain from the contents of Wine from These Grapes, which Millay had intended as a... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Edna St Vincent Millay | She had written it from a sickbed and it had appeared in New York daily papers immediately after the fall of Paris to the Nazis
. It now carried her statement, at her publisher's suggestion... |
Textual Production | Edna St Vincent Millay | |
Textual Production | Edna St Vincent Millay | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Nancy Mitford | |
Textual Production | Jan Morris | JM
made another foray into fantasy with Our First Leader which satirically envisages a German victory in the second world war, with Machynlleth as the capital of a Nazi
Wales. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber. 178 |
politics | Willa Muir | Their brief was in particular to assert the independence of the Scottish branch of PEN from the English branch. Having spent a good deal of time in Europe without paying close attention to the political... |
Occupation | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | FWN
was appointed at age 24 to the chair of classical philology at Basel University
. He is unique among German philosophers for having become nearly a household word outside the academic world, thanks in... |
Timeline
By June 1997: Anne Michaels, Canadian author of two poetry...
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By June 1997
Anne Michaels
, Canadian author of two poetry collections, won the Orange Prize for Fiction with her first novel, Fugitive Pieces, 1996.
After March 2006: Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française, an unfinished,...
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After March 2006
Irène Némirovsky
's Suite Française, an unfinished, two-part novel about the Nazi
occupation of France in 1941-2, reached print in English translation sixty-four years after composition.
15 June 2007: Tatiana de Rosnay, born in France in 1961...
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15 June 2007
Tatiana de Rosnay
, born in France in 1961 to an English mother and Russian father, published her first and most famous English-language novelSarah's Key, which in 2015 had sold nine million copies around the world.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
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